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wife Dorothy and lived early in Dartmouth.
Deborah Sears was born there
in September, 1639, and died August 17,
1732, "lacking about a month of being
ninety-three years old." She was admitted
to the Second Church of Yarmouth
by letter from the First Church, August
16, 1727. They left forty-eight grand-
children and thirty-eight great-grand-
children, thirty of the latter being de-
scendants of their second son, Zachariah.
Robert Paddock, the fourth son, was born
January 17, 1670, and lived in Yarmouth.
There he married, March 6, 1702, Martha
Hall, born May 24, 1670, daughter of John
and Priscilla (Pearce) Hall. Their second
son, Seth Paddock, was born March
13, 1705, in Yarmouth and married there,
April 13, 1727, Mercy Nickerson, who was
born November 22, 1706, daughter of John
and Elizabeth Nickerson of that town.
Zachariah Paddock, son of Seth and
Mercy (Nickerson) Paddock, born 1728,
was the first of the family in Middletown,
where he settled as early as 1751. His
first land was purchased from Samuel
Warner, Sr., the deed dated July 24, 175 1,
the amount one-fourth acre, price three
hundred pounds. Subsequently he purchased
of Andrew Bacon two other par-
cels amounting to nearly forty-seven
square rods. It is apparent that he was a
mechanic or professional man, as his land
was of small dimension and located in
the village, now city. He died in Middle-
town, May 13, 1800, in his seventy-second
year. He married Hannah Smith, stepdaughter
of John Birdsey of (now) Middlefield,
whose wife was a widow Smith
from Long Island. They had seven sons
and one daughter, the latter being the
last. Seth Paddock, third son of Zachariah
and Hannah (Smith) Paddock, born
in 1756, in Middletown, was a well-known
resident of Middletown, a forceful, practi-
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cal man and useful citizen. He died in 1839.
He married, January 7, 1779, Phebe John-
son, baptized June 3, 1759, died 1827,
daughter of Elijah and Mary (Hall) Johnson
of Middletown, descended from John
Johnson, who came from England in 1630
and settled at Roxbury. He was made a
freeman there in May, 1631, was repre-
sentative in the first General Court in
1634 and many years afterward, was a
member, in 1638, of the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company of Boston, in
charge of arms and ammunition. He died
September 30, 1657, leaving a good estate,
and his wife, Margery, who came with
him from England, was buried June 9,
1655. Their eldest son, Isaac Johnson,
born in England, was a freeman of Rox-
bury, March 4, 1635, a member of the
Artillery Company, 1645, captain in 1667,
representative in General Court in 1671.
He was killed at the head of his company
in the "Narragansett Fight" with Indians
December 19, 1675. He married, January
20, 1637, Elizabeth Porter, and they were
parents of Isaac Johnson, baptized January
17, 1644, settled at Middletown,
where he died February 3, 1720, leaving
a good estate. He married, December 26,
1669, in Roxbury, Mary Harris, who died
August I, 1740. Their fourth son, Joseph
Johnson, born March 9, 1677, in Middletown,
died November 12, 1739, and was
buried on Farm Hill. He married, Janu-
ary 25, 1698, Elizabeth Blake, who died
March 24, 1720. Their eldest son, Joseph
Johnson, born August 26, 1702, died April
30, 1768, was admitted to full communion
at the First Church. He married (first)
February 2, 1726, Mehitable Hamlin.
They were the parents of Elijah Johnson,
born December 3, 1734, baptized six days
old, married, July 19, 1756, Mary Hall.
Their daughter, Phebe, became the wife
of Seth Paddock, as above related.